What's The Role of Journalism in The New Haven Project?

It starts with covering The Project - but where does journalism end?

It's the same question I posed in last week's swCT panel on Embracing The New in News: if we're seeing so much more color and opinion and advocacy and personality from our journalists, how does it shape our relationship and interactions with them? 

Today I'm asking for much less abstract, much more pragmatic and immediate reasons. Last Tuesday in New Haven we kicked off our joint task force between Mayor DeStefano's office and various stakeholders to explore how we can use social media and technologies more effectively for common vision initiatives.

The consensus quickly centered on The New Haven Project: 100 Common Vision Initiatives in 100 Days. It's an open platform, crowd-sourced way for the most important issues in New Haven to bubble up, get airtime, find connections, dialogue, support, collaboration from whoever the relevant stakeholders are at the level of each initiative.

Journalists are one of our key stakeholders. We hope to see you next Tuesday, July 27 at 9:30 am when we gather in City Hall - this time to talk implementation. This is not an ask to cover and report on The Project. Rather it's about conversing with us so we can all come to a better understanding of how we can work together to make it happen.